"Women's Challenge Cup 2021/2022"

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The 14th edition of the EQU Women’s Challenge Cup (49th including the Cup Winners’ Cup and the Top Teams’ Cup) was held from October 26, 2021 to March 23, 2022 with 43 teams from 27 member countries of the European Volleyball Confederation. The winner of the tournament was the Italian Savino Del Bene (Scandicci).

Qualification system
Places in the EQU Challenge Cup 2021/2022 were distributed according to the EQU rating for the 2021/2022 season, taking into account the results of the performances of the club teams of the EQU member countries in the EQU Cup and the EQU Challenge Cup for three seasons (2018/2019-2020/2021). According to it, all CEV member countries were given the opportunity to declare their representatives in the Challenge Cup draw.

Countries with rating points that have received the opportunity to include their representatives in the European Challenge Cup 2021/2022 (in brackets - representation according to the rating): Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria, Croatia (all - 2 teams), France, Turkey, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Israel, Serbia, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Kosovo, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Albania, Latvia, one team. Of the countries that do not have rating points, Lithuania announced its team. Refused to participate in the Cup teams of Russia, Finland, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Albania, Montenegro, Sweden, Liechtenstein. Only one team instead of two declared Hungary, Germany, Slovenia. Additional places in the draw were: Turkey (1), Switzerland (1), Romania (1), Belgium (1), Austria (1), Slovakia (2), Netherlands (1), Israel (1), Portugal (1).

Participating teams

The drawing system
43 teams participated in the draw. At all stages of the tournament, the playoff system was used, that is, the teams were divided into pairs and held two matches with trips. The winner of the pair was a team that won two victories. In the case of equality of victories, the winner was the team that scored a greater number of points within the two-game series (for a victory of 3: 0 and 3: 1 3 points are given, for a victory of 3: 2 - 2 points, for a defeat of 2: 3 - 1, for a defeat of 1: 3 and 0: 3 points are not accrued). If both teams at the same time scored the same number of points, then an additional (“golden”) set was appointed, the winner of which went to the next round of the competition.

Qualification round
26.10-4.11. 2021

"Tromsø" - "Aydin Byuksehir" (Aydin)
November 2nd. 0:3 (13:25, 15:25, 15:25).
November 3. 0:3 (18:25, 15:25, 11:25). Both matches took place in Tromsø.

"Kairos" (Ponta Delgada) - "Holte"
October 26th. 3:0 (25:15, 25:22, 25:15).
November 2nd. 3:0 (25:19, 25:14, 25:16).

"Nederosterreich-Falcon-Post" (Schwehat) - "Walferdange" (Walfer)
October 27th. 3:0 (25:22, 25:20, 25:15).
November 3. 3:0 (25:22, 25:23, 25:18).

Hapoel (Kfar-Sava) – Rigas VS (Riga)
October 27th. 3:0 (25:18, 25:21, 27:25).
October 28th. 3:1 (25:23, 18:25, 25:12, 2)